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On the origin of morphological differences in the powerful radio galaxies

حلیمه میرآقایی (پژوهشکده نجوم پژوهشگاه دانش های بنیادی - IPM)

Abstract:

Powerful radio galaxies display a very wide range of properties, both in their extended radio morphologies and in their optical spectra. We study the environment and host galaxy properties of radio galaxies with different radio morphologies from compact sources to very extended double lobed radio galaxies and with different optical spectra as high excitation (HERG; quasar-mode) and low excitation (LERG; jet-mode) radio galaxies in order to separate and distinguish the factors that drive the radio morphological variations from those responsible for the differences in spectral properties. We particularly compare i) compact sources with Fanaroff–Riley (FR) extended radio sources from the same class of excitation, ii) HERGs with the LERGs, iii) FR type I with the FR type II from the same class of excitation. We discuss the results and what causes the differences in each comparison.